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August 1973 5-a-day

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August 1973

31 sheets · 155 questions · Grades 3-4

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  1. 1st August 1973A bag holds 4 red, 4 blue and 4 green counters. One is taken at random. Work out the probability it is blue.
  2. 2nd August 1973A scatter graph plots how far a lorry has driven and the fuel left in its tank. What type of correlation would you expect?
  3. 3rd August 1973Work out 1/3 divided by 1/3. Give your answer in its simplest form.
  4. 4th August 1973Simplify 4a + 3b + 3a - 7b.
  5. 5th August 19733 identical pens cost £1.35. Work out the cost of 8 of the same pens.
  6. 6th August 1973Two parallel lines are crossed by a straight line. One of a pair of co-interior (allied) angles is 126°. Work out the other.
  7. 7th August 1973A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.2. It is thrown 50 times. How many heads would you expect?
  8. 8th August 1973A pie chart shows 12 people. 9 of them chose French. Work out the angle of that sector.
  9. 9th August 1973A length x is 530 cm, rounded to the nearest 10. Write down the error interval for x.
  10. 10th August 1973A line has equation y = 5x - 5. Write down where it crosses the x-axis and where it crosses the y-axis.
  11. 11th August 1973A model of an aircraft is built to a scale of 1 : 25. The real length is 3 m. How long is the model, in cm?
  12. 12th August 1973Two of the angles in a triangle are 76° and 25°. Work out the third angle.
  13. 13th August 1973Hassan has 5 scores with a mean of 14. Scores 8, 17, 20, 11 are known. Work out the missing score.
  14. 14th August 1973200 students were asked how they travel. 30 walked, and of those 15 were late. How many walkers were on time?
  15. 15th August 1973Between which two consecutive whole numbers does sqrt(184) lie?
  16. 16th August 1973The angles in a triangle are 3x°, x° and (x + 85)°. Form an equation and work out x.
  17. 17th August 1973A 300 g bag of oats costs £1.05. Work out the cost per 100 g.
  18. 18th August 1973A goat is tied to a post in an open field by a rope 10 m long. Describe the region of grass it can reach.
  19. 19th August 1973The probability that it rains tomorrow is 3/5. Work out the probability that it does not rain.
  20. 20th August 1973On a bar chart each gridline square stands for 20 people. A bar is 9 squares tall. How many people does it show?
  21. 21st August 1973Work out 3/7 x 3/5. Give your answer in its simplest form.
  22. 22nd August 1973A rectangle is x cm wide and 8 cm longer than it is wide. Write a simplified expression for its perimeter.
  23. 23rd August 1973£1 is worth 1.08 Swiss francs. How many Swiss francs does £160 buy?
  24. 24th August 1973An L-shape is a 20 cm by 13 cm rectangle with a 15 cm by 6 cm rectangle cut out of one corner. Work out its area.
  25. 25th August 1973Using only the digits 2, 7, 6, 9 and no digit twice, how many different two-digit numbers can be made?
  26. 26th August 1973A stem and leaf diagram has a single stem 3 with the leaves 2, 4, 6, 7, 9. Work out the median of the five values.
  27. 27th August 1973A length x is 17.3 cm, rounded to 1 decimal place. Write down the error interval for x.
  28. 28th August 1973Use v = u + at with u = 10, a = 8 and t = 2. Work out v.
  29. 29th August 1973A recipe for 4 flapjacks uses 100 g of flour. How much flour is needed for 9 flapjacks?
  30. 30th August 1973A cuboid measures 9 cm by 11 cm by 10 cm. Work out its total surface area.
  31. 31st August 1973Here are 6 numbers: 11, 5, 14, 6, 2, 10. Work out the mean.

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